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Buffalo Sonnet: A Digital Comic

In a project commissioned by New York’s Lincoln Center, SADC produced an audio-described version of the digital comic, “Buffalo Sonnet.”

This artistic meditation on the Black experience tells the story of the historic San Juan Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, a vibrant cultural hub in the early 20th century that was eventually demolished to make way for Lincoln Center.

In close consultation with the comic’s creator, writer and illustrator Kamau Ware and Lincoln Center staff, SADC developed an innovative approach to making the work accessible for blind and low-vision audiences. We wrote detailed descriptions for the art and used a combination of sound design and voice acting to clearly distinguish the AD from the comic’s own narration, character dialogue, and thoughts. Our narrators, including native New Yorkers, were able to draw on authentic voices and personalities, bringing a unique flair to the script.

The described video adaptation of the “Buffalo Sonnet” comic is featured on the Lincoln Center’s Legacies of San Juan Hill page and you can watch the described version of Buffalo Sonnet on YouTube.

Credits

Audio Description Script writer and Scrolling Video Production: Kensuke Nakamura

Blind quality control: Robert Kingett

Audio Description Narration by [Project Lead Nefertiti Matos Olivares

Voice Actors: Barbara Faison and Thomas Reid

Audio Editing and Sound Design: Thomas Reid.

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Access:Horror

So inclusive, it’s scary.

Proudly ranked among the Top 5 Most Accessible Festivals in the 2023 Accessibility Scorecard Impact Report, Access:Horror is committed to ensuring a welcoming, barrier-free experience for all.

Access:Horror celebrates disability, genre cinema, and all that’s good in the world. Hosted by Ariel Baska (filmmaker, author, podcaster), the event will feature short film screenings, panels, and discussions, with luminaries in the horror and disability advocacy communities, and more.

In partnership with the George A. Romero Foundation and SHUDDER, Access:Horror hosts a hybrid film festival and industry summit online and live in New York City. The event is August 1st, 2025. Online tickets are $10. On-site tickets are $25. Buy your tickets, or donate to become a sponsor, and find the full program schedule on the One Cause website.

The event is at DCTV, at 87 Lafayette St in New York City. The program starts at 4 PM Eastern with a block of short films called Womb to Tomb. The second block, Flesh of My Flesh, starts at 7:30 PM. The event also includes performances and a live taping of the Blerdy Massacre podcast.

Accessibility information for the on-site and virtual screenings is available on the Access:Horror website and the ticketing site. Please contact festival organizers at [email protected] if you need financial or other support to purchase a ticket.

Social Audio Description Collective produced AD for seven films in the lineup: Flesh Ballet, Golden Hour, Lady Parts, Slasher, The Monster Inside My Head, The Shadow Wrangler, and Tight.

Audio description written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, and non-member associates Eboni Gaytan and Noah Kemp. Narration by Cheryl, Oliver, Eboni, Thomas Reid, and non-member associates Grant Miller and Tanja Milojevic. Blind QC by Robert Kingett and non-member associate Rick Hammond. Audio editing by Thomas, Cheryl, and Oliver.

#AccessHorror #ArielBaska #CherylGreen #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Be Here Now

Celeste, a grieving artist, returns to their hometown for a quick visit, but when their ride’s car is stolen, they must spend the night revisiting the people and places they left behind, realizing that connection, joy, and magic are at play even when life feels impossible.

Be Here Now merges the aesthetics of irreverent queer cinema and ’90s/2000s teen dramas through a lens of poetry & place, legacies of queer resistance, and DIY underground art & music that re-imagines what a coming-of-age story can be in a time of late-stage capitalism and disconnection. The film is by Chichi Castillo and Lauren R. Melton, in collaboration with First Light Productions, Dude Sweet, Lo Rot, and Stone Dove.

Audio description written by Cheryl Green. Narrated by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Audio editing by Thomas Reid.

#CherylGreen #ChichiCastillo #LaurenRMelton #NefertitiMatosOlivares #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Las Cosas Que Brillan

Las Cosas Que Brillan isn’t just a film—it’s a love letter to the Trans Latinx community. ⁠ Featuring a story of resilience, self-discovery, and hope, this film gives a voice to stories that deserve to be seen and heard.⁠

In this film by Sotomayor Productions, a curious young mermaid defies her mother’s warnings and ventures to the surface, only to discover the danger that lies above after a violent encounter with a conquistador.

Audio description written by Cheryl Green. Narrated by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Audio editing by Thomas Reid.
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Thanks, Babs!

Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed-racing through life, one five-year plan at a time.

Thanks, Babs! premieres at Frameline 49 on June 20th, 2025 in the Homegrown program. This program celebrates queer stories from the Bay Area. It features sci-fi, heists, gay stuff, elder stories, and more.

Thanks, Babs! is the latest documentary produced by Frankly Speaking Films.

Audio description written by Cheryl Green. Narrated by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Audio editing by Thomas Reid.

#CherylGreen #FranklySpeakingFilms #NefertitiMatosOlivares #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

For the second year in a row, SADC produced the audio description that was provided to all of the finalists of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, a program feature starting last year. As before, no specific information about any of this years fifteen finalist short films was provided to SADC prior to our receiving them, and we delivered Blind-reviewed, sound edited and mixed AD audio tracks for all of them within nine days. This year, the only films audiences were presented at the live announcement and screening of the finalists and at the 12th annual live awards show that followed a week later were “Open AD” versions incorporating SADC AD–as well as open captions. Emcee Nic Novicki gave the AD a fantastic shout-out and screened a brief promo of us as part of the show.

Read more about the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge on their website or our blurb about our work last year.

All of the films showcase deafness or disability on- or behind-the-scenes, and to enter, they had to be scripted, shot and finished within five days by volunteers. They are allowed to run anywhere from one to five minutes, and up to a minute extra for credits. This year the challenge called for a thriller or suspense film.

Project Lead was Thomas Reid. Writers were Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, founding former member Kensuke Nakamura, and new associates Sean Collins, Casaundra Freeman, and Eboni Gaytan. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett. Narrated by Thomas, Cheryl, Oliver, Nefertiti, Barbara Faison, Casaundra, and Eboni.

You can watch all fifteen finalist films with open AD and open captions through this YouTube playlist.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #EastersealsDisabilityFilmChallenge #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

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Beam+ Stories, Season 2

Beam+ is a project-based, physically integrated creative arts company based in Denver, CO. The Beam+ Stories series is focused on breaking stigma, one story at a time. Season 2 features nine short documentaries focused on Denver-area disabled artists from diverse backgrounds and experiences working in a range of artistic mediums.

The series premieres June 22nd, 2025, virtually and onsite, all for free. Check out the Beam+ Stories Season 2 page on their website for info on the onsite and virtual premiere, various accessibility offerings, and how to subscribe to Beam+ Stories on YouTube.

Audio description for Season 2 was written by Project Lead Cheryl Green. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Narrated by Nefertiti Matos Olivares, Barbara Faison, Thomas Reid, Cheryl, and non-collective member StormMiguel Florez. Audio edited by Cheryl and Thomas.

#BarbaraFaison #Beam_ #CherylGreen #NefertitiMatosOlivares #RobertKingett #SADC #StormMiguelFlorez #ThomasReid

Holding Liat

Holding Liat is winner of the Documentary Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at 2025 Berlin Film Festival. Liat Beinin Atzili is one of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows Liat’s relatives, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and humanity amidst war, trauma, and diplomacy.

Social Audio Description provided the audio description and read subtitles for this English and Hebrew feature-length documentary.

Written and narrated by Project Lead Cheryl Green, who also captioned the film in English. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Subtitles read by Oliver Baker and Barbara Faison. Audio editing by Thomas Reid.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Vivien’s Wild Ride

After a long career in cinema, film editor Vivien Hillgrove starts losing her sight, forcing her to reexamine past traumas and relationships, and to reinvent herself and her art.

Directed by Vivien Hillgrove, Vivien’s Wild Ride is a story of resistance and resilience. The documentary captures a story of transformation on many levels, reimagining what it means to see and to belong through acts of creation, connection, and caring, not just biology.

SADC produced the audio description for the film, which has its World Premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival April 18th and 19th. Closed captions and audio description will be available.

Written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, who also captioned the film. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Narrated by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and non-member Ruth Kahn. Audio edited by Thomas Reid.

#CherylGreen #NefertitiMatosOlivares #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Neon as Soulcraft & RugLife @SFMCD

SADC recently produced the audio tours for two more recent exhibitions at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design: RugLife, which is showing currently through April 20, and Neon as Soulcraft, which ran through November last year.

Biographical and other curatorial text were provided by the museum and incorporated into the tours. Wayfinding and description of the exhibition pieces were written by Project Lead Cheryl Green and Oliver Baker. Cheryl also narrated and edited the audio. Blind QC was provided by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett.

Visit the exhibition pages and scroll down to the “Audio Tours” links near the bottom to listen to a tour or read the transcript. The tours and the pages remain online after the shows end. Two other exhibitions SADC described are, Mr. Roboto and Indie Folk.

#CherylGreen #NefertitiBlindQC #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC

Godzilla Minus One

The latest in our pro bono or “vigilante” AD series of work is a feature-length AD script.

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

Read the vigilante script here.

Project lead, writer, and audio/video editor, Kensuke Nakamura. Narrator, Barbara Faison. Writer and Blind QC, Robert Kingett.

#BarbaraFaison #KensukeNakamura #RobertKingett #SADC

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, the museum recently began rolling out audio and written image descriptions, written and produced by SADC, for every artwork in their collection. The project of describing the whole collection is expected to be complete in 2025.

For those itching to read or listen, already a few dozen artworks have their descriptions available on their individual pages of the Anderson Collection website. These include: The Coat II; Totem Lesson I; Chain Gang; Gansevoort Street; Before, Again IV; Full Time, Number 64; Transfiguration III; Lucifer; Homage to the Square, Diffused; Pendulum; Summer Image (For My Mother); Untitled No. 21 (by Martin); Hans Bricker In The Tropics; Untitled (1969) (by McCraken); The Tale; Living Curve; Untitled (by Irwin); Italian Summer; Sky Garden; Timeless Clock; 1957-J No. 1 (PH-142); black painting; Approach; Plumb Bob; Sinking Brick Plates; and Burn and Glitter. The museum will continue adding the written and audio-recorded descriptions as they become available. We anticipate completing the project in Fall 2025.

Descriptions written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, Kensuke Nakamura, and non-member associates Eboni Gaytan, Noah Kemp, Casaundra Freeman, and Sean Collins. Blind QC by Robert Kingett and Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narration by Oliver, Barbara Faison, Cheryl, Nefertiti, Thomas Reid, and non-member associate Tanja Milojevic. Audio editing by Oliver, Cheryl, Thomas, and Tanja.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #TanjaMilojevic #ThomasReid

Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS

SADC produced Audio Description for a new digital series of five documentary short films showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities called Renegades. In April, 2025, the series won a Webby Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (Series or Channel).

Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi, Renegades premiered Tuesdays, October 1 – October 29 on the American Masters YouTube channel, PBS.org and the PBS App in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Overall accessibility for the series, including ASL interpretation, captioning, and descriptive transcript, was coordinated and created by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Artist Network.

For the AD production, Cheryl Green was the project lead, as well as writer, along with Oliver Baker. Narration by Thomas Reid and non-collective member Tanja Milojevic. Blind QC by Robert Kingett, Bex León, and Nefertiti Matos Olivares.

The Renegades World Premiere onsite premiere was free at The Kennedy Center on September 29th, 2024, and in Manhattan at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, co-sponsored by ReelAbilities Film Festival on October 1st, 2024. Please note that some onsite screenings are planned to have live audio description, not the SADC-produced AD.

Visit the Renegades page on PBS to learn where to watch online or on the app with audio description, ASL, and captions.

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #MarLeón #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

After the Bomb focuses on two women permanently disabled as adults by violence in Northern Ireland in the period known as the Troubles. It tells the story of their ultimately successful campaign along with others to secure substantive government assistance to people injured like themselves. At the same time, the film documents the unique support they have come along the way to provide each other.

Made by Heather Brumley, SADC produced audio description for the film, which premiered on July 14, 2024 and shared the Best Short Documentary Award at the 36th Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland. The film features the facility in Northern Ireland where the women met and their campaign began: WAVE Trauma Centre.

Audio description led by Cheryl Green. Written by Oliver Baker. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Audio edited by Thomas Reid. Narration by Paula Burns, an AD narrator from Northern Ireland who the SADC specially subcontracted for this project.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/07/13/after-the-bomb/

#CherylGreen #CherylProjectLead #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Here’s SADC receiving thanks from master of ceremonies Nic Novicki at the award ceremony.

The SADC provided audio description for 15 of the 16 finalists for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, now in its 11th year. (The winner for Best Film, entitled Audio Description, had AD already supplied and central to its story.)

The films each showcase deafness or disability, and had to be scripted, shot and finished all within five days, all by volunteers, and this year all in the form of a buddy comedy.

Prizes are awarded in six categories. At the same time, winners also receive exposure and introductions to entertainment industry professionals and executives.

This was the first year in which finalist films were provided professional AD in advance of the winners being announced. Given the contest’s constraints, the description had to happen fast and under secrecy.  SADC is proud to have been the EDFC’s choice.

Project Lead was Thomas Reid. Writers were Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, and Kensuke Nakamura. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett. Narrated by Thomas, Cheryl, Oliver, Nefertiti, and Barbara Faison.

Check out a playlist of the open captioned, open audio described finalist films.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylAudioEditor #CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylNarrator #EastersealsDisabilityFilmChallenge #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

SADC recently produced audio description for Samuel and Dan Habib’s documentary, The Ride Ahead. The Ride Ahead is a major expansion of their Emmy Award winning film My Disability Roadmap, which SADC also audio described.

Samuel Habib is a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career, and find love. But, as he says in the film, “no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability.” Can a community of disability activists help him follow his dreams?

The Ride Ahead will have its world premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival as part of the Special Presentations Lineup. Tickets go on sale April 2nd. The festival runs from April 25th to May 5th, 2024 in Toronto.

Project Lead Cheryl Green wrote the AD. Robert Kingett did blind QC. Nefertiti Matos Olivares narrated. Audio was edited by Thomas Reid.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/03/19/the-ride-ahead/

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #NefertitiMatosOlivares #NefertitiNarrator #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

A clairvoyant neurosurgeon embarks on a weekend get away with her best friend only to discover the mountain range has a haunting history.

Audio description written by, Kensuke Nakamura. Blind QC, Robert Kingett. Narrator, Barbara Faison. Blind QC and audio editor, Thomas Reid.

View theNegro Mountain film details on Alicia’s website.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2023/09/20/negro-mountain/

#BarbaraFaison #KensukeNakamura #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Robert Kingett is a writer, blogger and advocate for accessibility (especially in open source and publishing). You can follow at:

➡️ @weirdwriter

Kingett's main website is at https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com

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Robert Kingett is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and campaigner for accessibility. You can follow at:

➡️ @weirdwriter

His website is at https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com

#RobertKingett #Writing #Books #Author #Authors #Editor #Writer #Activism #Accessibility #A11y #Disability #Disabilities #Disabled